26, Jhalrapatan Stone Inscription ot Udayaditya 



[Vikrama] Samvat 1143 (1086 a.d.). 



By Sahityacharya Prof. Pt. Bishweshwar Nath. 



Shastri, Jodhpur. 



[With Plate XXII.] 



This stone inscription lies in Sarvasukhiyakothi at Jhal- 

 rapatan. It contains ten lines of writing which cover a space of 

 8" (in breadth) by 6£" (in height.) It is well preserved. The 

 characters are Nagarl. The letters in the first seven lines are 

 bigger than those in the last three. 1 The language is Sanskrit 

 and the whole of the inscription is in prose. 



The inscription is dated the 10th of the bright half of 

 VaiShakha in the [Vikrama] year 1143. It is mentioned in 

 this inscription that Janna a teli Patel built a temple of Siva 

 and dug a vapi (tank) in the reign of Udayaditya. Two praSastis 

 (eulogies) of Udayaditya, dated Vikrama Samvat 1116 and 1137, 

 have already been published. From this inscription it appears 

 that Udayaditya Paramara reigned till 1143. How this prince 

 was related to Paramara Bhoja has not yet been known. But 

 his inscriptions show that he was related to Bhoja. A copper- 

 plate of Paramara Jayasinha I, dated Vikrama Samvat 1112 

 (a.d. 1055), published in Epigraphica Indica, vol. Ill, page 48, 

 shows that Bhoja was succeeded by Jayasinha and afterwards 

 by Udayaditya. A detailed account of these has been pub- 

 lished by me in the issue of January 1914 of the Saras wati 

 Magazine. 



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